Spinning off time intensive procedures to speed CGI

Steve Lamb grey at despair.rpglink.com
Thu Dec 14 16:08:43 EST 2000


On 14 Dec 2000 20:41:38 GMT, Quinn Dunkan <quinn at dinar.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Sending email doesn't so much depend on the speed of your server as the speed
>of the dns lookup, the internet between you and the remote host, and the
>remote host.  

    Uhm, if anyone is implementing an MTA in their CGI they deserve any
latency they get.  Otherwise none of these are an issue when it comes to
opeming the mta and having it send the message; a simple system call.

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